2010 Car Launches

dr-baker · Post by **dr-baker** » 03 Feb 2010, 13:07

I'm getting the jist of this now...

And my final attempt:

LionZoo · Post by **LionZoo** » 03 Feb 2010, 13:11

Does it say "MaRussia?" Definitely opens up a lot of "Mother Russia" or "In Communist Russia" jokes.

I'll start: "In Communist Russia, virgins launch you!"

Phoenix · Post by **Phoenix** » 03 Feb 2010, 14:21

The most beautiful car I've seen in a long time, excluding the MP4-25, that Virgin.

fjackdaw · Post by **fjackdaw** » 03 Feb 2010, 14:34

Mister Fungus wrote:At first I absolutely loved the livery, I still do but what's up with that tatoo on the front wing?

I like the little psychedelic swirls on the car, it shows a touch of design nous, rather than just flinging sponsor decals on.

Tealy · Post by **Tealy** » 03 Feb 2010, 14:38

fjackdaw wrote:
Mister Fungus wrote:At first I absolutely loved the livery, I still do but what's up with that tatoo on the front wing?

I like the little psychedelic swirls on the car, it shows a touch of design nous, rather than just flinging sponsor decals on.

Damn! Of course, once they get a few sponsors we will lose some of this livery

DonTirri · Post by **DonTirri** » 03 Feb 2010, 14:41

Tealy wrote:
fjackdaw wrote:
Mister Fungus wrote:At first I absolutely loved the livery, I still do but what's up with that tatoo on the front wing?

I like the little psychedelic swirls on the car, it shows a touch of design nous, rather than just flinging sponsor decals on.

Damn! Of course, once they get a few sponsors we will lose some of this livery

Ehm... ya think Virgin needs sponsors? its funded by Richard friggin Branson, the man who started his own space ship program because he wanted to go to space

LionZoo · Post by **LionZoo** » 03 Feb 2010, 14:41

Tealy wrote:
fjackdaw wrote:
Mister Fungus wrote:At first I absolutely loved the livery, I still do but what's up with that tatoo on the front wing?

I like the little psychedelic swirls on the car, it shows a touch of design nous, rather than just flinging sponsor decals on.

Damn! Of course, once they get a few sponsors we will lose some of this livery

Compared to some of the other teams, they already have a lot of sponsors!

noisebox · Post by **noisebox** » 03 Feb 2010, 14:50

fjackdaw wrote:
Mister Fungus wrote:At first I absolutely loved the livery, I still do but what's up with that tatoo on the front wing?

I like the little psychedelic swirls on the car, it shows a touch of design nous, rather than just flinging sponsor decals on.

They have a touch of Super Aguri about them, which can't be a bad thing!

LucaPacchiarini · Post by **LucaPacchiarini** » 03 Feb 2010, 14:55

Mister Fungus wrote:At first I absolutely loved the livery, I still do but what's up with that tatoo on the front wing?

it's not a tattoo, it's feminine psichedelia :mrgreen:

dragonsteincole · Post by **dragonsteincole** » 03 Feb 2010, 15:00

http://www.virginracing.com/cars/#/video I think Timo is in Tim O'Glock mode, good video as it's maybe a little more personal than some of the other team launches so far. Plus more to see of the car, which definately looks like it obeys the "If it looks right, then it is right." adage.

jackanderton · Post by **jackanderton** » 03 Feb 2010, 15:12

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsp ... 495275.stm

Force India are supposedly unveiling their 2010 car next week. So what is that thing behind Paul Di Resta?

Henrique · Post by **Henrique** » 03 Feb 2010, 15:29

Wow, very nice car from Virgin, with a cool front wing.
However, as an old Midland fan, yes, the livery looks too familiar

Paul Hayes · Post by **Paul Hayes** » 03 Feb 2010, 15:48

jackanderton wrote:http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport/formula_one/8495275.stm

Force India are supposedly unveiling their 2010 car next week. So what is that thing behind Paul Di Resta?

Last year's car?

tc3j3r · Post by **tc3j3r** » 03 Feb 2010, 15:53

That Virgin really does look great.

amunt · Post by **amunt** » 03 Feb 2010, 19:16

LionZoo wrote:Does it say "MaRussia?" Definitely opens up a lot of "Mother Russia" or "In Communist Russia" jokes.

I'll start: "In Communist Russia, virgins launch you!"

the swirls, or "tatoos", on the car, are actually some ancient Russian ornaments, representing Russian involvement with the team: "MaRussia" is a project of Nikolay Fomenko (former singer/entertainer/FIA GT reject); they are advertising themselves as the "first Russian sportscar manufacturer" and are claiming to be Virgin's "technical partner"

RejectSteve · Post by **RejectSteve** » 03 Feb 2010, 20:09

amunt wrote:
LionZoo wrote:Does it say "MaRussia?" Definitely opens up a lot of "Mother Russia" or "In Communist Russia" jokes.

I'll start: "In Communist Russia, virgins launch you!"

the swirls, or "tatoos", on the car, are actually some ancient Russian ornaments, representing Russian involvement with the team: "MaRussia" is a project of Nikolay Fomenko (former singer/entertainer/FIA GT reject); they are advertising themselves as the "first Russian sportscar manufacturer" and are claiming to be Virgin's "technical partner"

Fomenko also had a very brief appearance in A1GP's first weekend when he drove for the Motherland in practice. They should name him to be their test driver, he's 48 years old so that would surpass that baby-faced Schumacher child.

Captain Hammer · Post by **Captain Hammer** » 03 Feb 2010, 23:09

LionZoo wrote:Does it say "MaRussia?" Definitely opens up a lot of "Mother Russia" or "In Communist Russia" jokes.

Marussia is a fleldging Russian sports car manufacturer. If you're going to make In Soviet Russia jokes, make them about Petrov.

SDHammer · Post by **SDHammer** » 04 Feb 2010, 10:09

Captain Hammer wrote:
LionZoo wrote:Does it say "MaRussia?" Definitely opens up a lot of "Mother Russia" or "In Communist Russia" jokes.

Marussia is a fleldging Russian sports car manufacturer. If you're going to make In Soviet Russia jokes, make them about Petrov.

Apparantly Marussia are Russia's only hybrid supercar manufacturer.

thehemogoblin · Post by **thehemogoblin** » 04 Feb 2010, 10:16

SDHammer wrote:
Captain Hammer wrote:
LionZoo wrote:Does it say "MaRussia?" Definitely opens up a lot of "Mother Russia" or "In Communist Russia" jokes.

Marussia is a fleldging Russian sports car manufacturer. If you're going to make In Soviet Russia jokes, make them about Petrov.

Apparantly Marussia are Russia's only hybrid supercar manufacturer.

Is that a blessing or a KERS?

dr-baker · Post by **dr-baker** » 04 Feb 2010, 10:35

SDHammer wrote:
Captain Hammer wrote:
LionZoo wrote:Does it say "MaRussia?" Definitely opens up a lot of "Mother Russia" or "In Communist Russia" jokes.

Marussia is a fleldging Russian sports car manufacturer. If you're going to make In Soviet Russia jokes, make them about Petrov.

Apparantly Marussia are Russia's only hybrid supercar manufacturer.

So they would be to Russia roughly what DeLorean was to Northern Ireland then? Sweet...

TomWazzleshaw · Post by **TomWazzleshaw** » 04 Feb 2010, 10:59

thehemogoblin wrote:Is that a blessing or a KERS?

Nice

Anyways the Virgin is definatly going into the book of all time beautiful F1 cars

Collieafc · Post by **Collieafc** » 05 Feb 2010, 10:11

The best looking car of 2010 so far.

ADx_Wales · Post by **ADx_Wales** » 05 Feb 2010, 14:43

I'm pleased that all the cars, that have taken to tarmac this month , have scrapped the aerodynamic, yet eyesoreing, airflow hubcaps, or whatever they are called, they used to work in group-c, but not in F1 anymore thankfully

LionZoo · Post by **LionZoo** » 05 Feb 2010, 14:51

ADx_Wales wrote:I'm pleased that all the cars, that have taken to tarmac this month , have scrapped the aerodynamic, yet eyesoreing, airflow hubcaps, or whatever they are called, they used to work in group-c, but not in F1 anymore thankfully

Those were banned.

ADx_Wales · Post by **ADx_Wales** » 05 Feb 2010, 15:02

And yet the sharkfins and airflow wing-mirrors still roam the earth....

Post by **DemocalypseNow** » 05 Feb 2010, 19:04

LionZoo wrote:
ADx_Wales wrote:I'm pleased that all the cars, that have taken to tarmac this month , have scrapped the aerodynamic, yet eyesoreing, airflow hubcaps, or whatever they are called, they used to work in group-c, but not in F1 anymore thankfully

Those were banned.

Don't bother trying to tell him, he won't listen. I told him weeks ago and he clearly didn't pay attention.
Note to self, don't bother trying to explain anything to Welsh people, it'll only go in one ear and out the other...

Salamander · Post by **Salamander** » 05 Feb 2010, 21:27

kostas22 wrote:
LionZoo wrote:
ADx_Wales wrote:I'm pleased that all the cars, that have taken to tarmac this month , have scrapped the aerodynamic, yet eyesoreing, airflow hubcaps, or whatever they are called, they used to work in group-c, but not in F1 anymore thankfully

Those were banned.

Don't bother trying to tell him, he won't listen. I told him weeks ago and he clearly didn't pay attention.
Note to self, don't bother trying to explain anything to Welsh people, it'll only go in one ear and out the other...

Hey, I'm Welsh! Well, half-Welsh...

thehemogoblin · Post by **thehemogoblin** » 05 Feb 2010, 23:24

BlindCaveSalamander wrote:
kostas22 wrote:
LionZoo wrote:
Those were banned.

Don't bother trying to tell him, he won't listen. I told him weeks ago and he clearly didn't pay attention.
Note to self, don't bother trying to explain anything to Welsh people, it'll only go in one ear and out the other...

Hey, I'm Welsh! Well, half-Welsh...

... you have nothing to worry about then. It goes in one ear, then gets stuck.

ADx_Wales · Post by **ADx_Wales** » 05 Feb 2010, 23:28

kostas22 wrote:
LionZoo wrote:
ADx_Wales wrote:I'm pleased that all the cars, that have taken to tarmac this month , have scrapped the aerodynamic, yet eyesoreing, airflow hubcaps, or whatever they are called, they used to work in group-c, but not in F1 anymore thankfully

Those were banned.

Don't bother trying to tell him, he won't listen. I told him weeks ago and he clearly didn't pay attention.
Note to self, don't bother trying to explain anything to Welsh people, it'll only go in one ear and out the other...

Someone's got some aplologising to do

LionZoo · Post by **LionZoo** » 06 Feb 2010, 02:41

ADx_Wales wrote:And yet the sharkfins and airflow wing-mirrors still roam the earth....

Those were not banned.

Jordan · Post by **Jordan** » 09 Feb 2010, 12:33

How has this not been posted yet/how did I miss it

eytl · Post by **eytl** » 09 Feb 2010, 12:48

That new Force India looks somewhat conservative, at first glance. Very detailed front wing treatment though. Apparently much work has gone into the diffuser, but unsurprisingly there are no pics of that available.

Perhaps more than any other car so far the VJM03 looks very "cab forward", emphasising how the enlarged fuel tanks has stretched the section from the cockpit back.

LucaPacchiarini · Post by **LucaPacchiarini** » 09 Feb 2010, 12:59

It's the same as last year, basically...the shark fin is different though

Any images of the Lotus?

Phoenix · Post by **Phoenix** » 09 Feb 2010, 15:00

Jordan wrote:How has this not been posted yet/how did I miss it

It's very similar to last year's car (lumpy aspect) but they stretched the fin until the rear wing, just as McLaren. The front and rear wings are also a bit different.

fjackdaw · Post by **fjackdaw** » 09 Feb 2010, 15:19

LucaPacchiarini wrote:Any images of the Lotus?

I'm dying to know if the Lotus is going to be green!

madcat · Post by **madcat** » 09 Feb 2010, 16:19

Will they go for the traditional British racing green or blue,red and white of the Malasyan flag? Does Proton have a colour?

Popi_Larrauri · Post by **Popi_Larrauri** » 09 Feb 2010, 16:48

It seems that this year harvest in terms of colour schemes and aerodesing its set to be the best in years (last 8 years or so). So far, I haven't seen anything unpleasent to watch, let alone something like the Honda 2008.

The Passenger · Post by **The Passenger** » 09 Feb 2010, 16:59

fjackdaw wrote:I'm dying to know if the Lotus is going to be green!

Heikki Kovalainen said in a recent interview that the car's color scheme would be similar to what Team Lotus used back in the 50s and 60s, so I'm expecting it to be green.

fjackdaw · Post by **fjackdaw** » 09 Feb 2010, 17:07

The Passenger wrote:
fjackdaw wrote:I'm dying to know if the Lotus is going to be green!

Heikki Kovalainen said in a recent interview that the car's color scheme would be similar to what Team Lotus used back in the 50s and 60s, so I'm expecting it to be green.

Nice!

P_Friesacher · Post by **P_Friesacher** » 09 Feb 2010, 17:11

Breaking: It is indeed green, and it looks great http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/81365
Bonus: On this picture it is driven by Fairuz Fauzy!